Word: showings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eviction-Free Zone, one of three organizations which drafted the ordinance, $10 per hour was chosen because it was the lowest wage paid any unionized city employee. As such, it was seen as a minimal standard for a living wage. In fact, studies on the local cost of living show just how minimal it is. According to the National Low-Income Housing Commission, a wage of roughly $15 per hour is needed to live in the Boston area. Wider Opportunities for Women also found that in 1997, a living wage for families of varying composition would range from...
...barren to me. I have never so much as held a Game Boy--though in my role as uncle, I have held boys who were playing the game. I don't know the Pokemon toys, cards or comic books. I once watched 10 minutes of the Pokemon TV show, and that particular episode must have been the antidote to the one that provoked seizures in 700 Japanese kids; it put me near to sleep. So as I describe my exasperation with Pokemon: The First Movie, be gentle in your derision. Sometimes the young have to indulge their elders...
...that there are as many murders in Kosovo today as there were in the months prior to the NATO campaign, but now Serbs are the main victims. Kosovo Albanians are purging the province of Serbian culture: license plates are being blacked out, accents dropped, and street signs lengthened to show Albanian pronunciation. A U.N. worker was shot three hours after arriving in Pristina last month for speaking Serbian. How should Clinton pronounce the name of the place? He has already shown a Clintonian flexibility. In speeches prior to the NATO bombing he used the Serbian "Ko-sovo." During...
...students who died last week, according to the Associated Press. Taking a swipe at the other candidates, Mike Hull, Bush's Arizona campaign director, haughtily informed the news service of the Texas governor's commitment to his constituents, simultaneously managing to characterize any questions regarding Bush's no-show as utterly compassionless. And in fact, although you'd never know it from all the ruffled feathers, Bush never planned to be at Sunday's debate; he'll make his much-anticipated debut at the December 2 GOP event in New Hampshire...
...good day for law enforcement in America. Two sets of numbers were released Monday, each casting their own optimistic light on the citizenry and what one analyst called "the contagion of lawfulness." The first figures, from the FBI, show that serious crime plunged 10 percent in the first half of 1999, the largest drop in the 1990s. Those rates include rape, murder, aggravated assault and burglaries. And as if that's not enough to put a smile on Bill Bennett's face, new numbers from the private antidrug group Partnership for a Drug Free America show that drug use among...